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Library Search

What is Library Search?

What is Library Search?

Library Search is your search engine for finding books, e-books, journals, full-text articles and more! Library content, including the Library Catalogue, E-Journals catalogue and our database collections can be searched from one easy to use page, enabling you to access good quality academic content more quickly and simply.

Features include:

A single search - Provides a Google-like search experience, allowing you to use one search box to discover credible and reliable library content.

Relevant results - Delivers search results in a relevancy-ranked list so the most relevant results appear at the top of the list.

"Did you mean?" suggestions and recommendations - Even if you don’t know all the right keywords to use, the intuitive Library Search tool provides alternative guidance for misspellings or low yield queries and recommends other resources that may be useful to you.

Complete and instant access - Incorporates the comprehensive knowledge of your library's holdings so you can access their results including full-text of electronic articles.

Results refinement - Easily navigate and narrow search result sets using multiple methods, such as filtering, faceting and sorting.

Mobile friendly - Designed with mobile in mind, the interface is responsive to different devices, creating a seamless experience whether you’re using a desktop, tablet or mobile device— all without losing any functionality. No apps to install - just go!

Library Search

Resources

What's included in Library Search?

Library Search will search the following resources:

all print book titles and journal titles we hold

all ebook titles we hold

all electronic journals at title level

the majority of electronic journal articles in full text (about 95% of our holdings currently, but this figure is always increasing)

In house DVD/Media collection. Tip: also check out BoB, our Freeview off-air recording system and media archive!